Minter: Performances on Sound
Marcus Jackson, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh & Elliot Vaughan
4/5/19

An evening of performances from Composers; Marcus Jackson, Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and Elliot Vaughan.

Marcus Jackson presents 'like some kind of residue'

'like some kind of residue' is a meditation on the topologies of cultural experience. How do we cope with culture—that which is recursive and dialogic, bigger than we might ever be, and all the while backwardly compatible and defined by us, ourselves? When the present recalls memories, and we smudge the line between experiential creation and recreation, are we mindful of the multiplicitous temporal spaces our bodies inhabit? How far might we stretch ourselves—mentally, physically, emotionally, and otherwise—to accommodate the precious past, in light of our current and future headings?

Antonia Barnett-McIntosh presents 'The various directions of should'

Group conversation, group reading. A new play? Or rehearsal of it, maybe.. A script, a score. Written in the vernacular and performed verbatim. What modes of delivery of speech – mixing it up, talking over the top of each another, the natural turn-taking of chit-chat. Speech part enunciated, part relaxed. Sharing stories, a moment, our languages. Told through our own voices speaking aloud.

Elliot Vaughan presents 'What are the dead to us in our better fortune?'

'What are the dead to us in our better fortune?' is a performative report on and response to deaths, historic events, and observances on the date alongside Billboard Hot 100 songs. The 4 May performance is the first in what I can imagine becoming a series of panoramic histories. It includes The Chipmunk's success at the first Grammys, the executions of four Irish rebel leaders after Easter Rising, World Naked Gardening Day, and a shameful, opportunistic gender experiment. The title comes from Conquistador by Archibald Macleish, which was awarded the Pulitzer for poetry on 4 May 1933.

Curated by Sara Cowdell